Red square Emoji

Symbols

A bold, solid red square with sharp corners. It is a simple geometric shape that stands out clearly against any background, often used to grab attention or represent a stop signal.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the color red, a stop button, or a warning. In sports, it serves as an shorthand for being sent off the field, similar to showing a 🟥 red card. It is also used as a visual block in social media posts to create headers or dividers, often alongside the 🟦 blue square or 🟨 yellow square.

History

Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, the red square was introduced alongside a full set of colored squares to provide users with basic building blocks for grid-based art and color-coded communication in digital chats, which had previously relied on complex text formatting.

Details

Glyph

🟥

Unicode

U+1F7E5

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e5:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE5;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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